The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 30Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... writing it . There is a luftre in his verses , like that of the fun in Claude Lorrain's landskips : it looks na- tural , and is inimitable . His love - verfes have a mix- ture of delicacy and ftrength : they convey the wit of Petronius ...
... writing it . There is a luftre in his verses , like that of the fun in Claude Lorrain's landskips : it looks na- tural , and is inimitable . His love - verfes have a mix- ture of delicacy and ftrength : they convey the wit of Petronius ...
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... writer of this kind that ever lived , " Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico " Tangit , & admiffus circum ... writing , which however are always repeated : like the verses and sayings of the antient Druids , they retain an univerfal ...
... writer of this kind that ever lived , " Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico " Tangit , & admiffus circum ... writing , which however are always repeated : like the verses and sayings of the antient Druids , they retain an univerfal ...
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... yours and , when I think whofe fon I am writing to , the leaft I promise myself , from your goodness , is an uninterrupted continuance of favour , and 5 : a friend- a friendship for life . To which that I may DEDICATION . 13.
... yours and , when I think whofe fon I am writing to , the leaft I promise myself , from your goodness , is an uninterrupted continuance of favour , and 5 : a friend- a friendship for life . To which that I may DEDICATION . 13.
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... writing should appear in print under ano- ther name and patronage than that of an Earl of Dorfet , people might fufpect them not to be genuine . I have attained my prefent end , if these poems prove the diver- fion of fome of your ...
... writing should appear in print under ano- ther name and patronage than that of an Earl of Dorfet , people might fufpect them not to be genuine . I have attained my prefent end , if these poems prove the diver- fion of fome of your ...
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... writing ; that poem having produced the verses immediately following it . I wifh fhe might be prevailed with to publish some other pieces of that kind , in which the foftness of her fex , and the fineness of her genius , confpire to ...
... writing ; that poem having produced the verses immediately following it . I wifh fhe might be prevailed with to publish some other pieces of that kind , in which the foftness of her fex , and the fineness of her genius , confpire to ...
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